Being part of a management team brings with it satisfaction, frustration and stress. The stress levels of a management position are increased when you are a newly hired manager from outside the company. The plans you have for the first 30 days of your stint as a new manager in a new company will help to dictate how well you are able to implement policy and contribute to the company's growth in the future.

Networking

As you have contact with your new subordinates, you should also be networking with the rest of the company as well. Become familiar with the other departmental managers and the company executives. Take the time to analyze the corporate culture and examine how the organizational politics work. You will need to get as many people on your side as possible when it comes to dealing with human resources issues and budget planning. You will also need to understand how to operate effectively within the structure of the organization.

Staff

Your first introduction to your new staff should be done in a general meeting. Subordinates will approach you prior to the meeting to try and learn about you. It is best to schedule the introduction meeting as quickly as possible and politely inform employees that you will introduce yourself at the meeting. This will allow the entire staff to learn about you at the same time and no one will be perceived as having preliminary information about you. Then there should be individual meetings with each employee to discuss employee performance, employee expectations and what your plans are for the future of the department.

Small Policy Changes

In the first 30 days of becoming a manager, your subordinates will be watching every administrative move you make. Whether you agree with the policies of the previous manager or not, and irregardless of your plans for the future, you will want to start off with small changes to allow your subordinates to get an understanding of how you work. Policies such as calling in sick, being late or a departmental training schedule are good places to start implementing your own changes. It allows you to start making your own mark on the department while still learning how you would like to develop the larger changes you had in mind.

Listening

Managers in their first 30 days on the job should do a great deal of listening to employees, other managers, clients and other business associates. The way that a new manager learns how things are currently done, and how people would like things to be done, is by listening. Try to hear both sides of a discussion before making a decision. The situation is new to you, so you will want to gather all of the information you can before you change something.

About the Author

George N. Root III began writing professionally in 1985. His publishing credits include a weekly column in the "Lockport Union Sun and Journal" along with the "Spectrum," the "Niagara Falls Gazette," "Tonawanda News," "Watertown Daily News" and the "Buffalo News." Root has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.